And yep, that's horrible. We predicted that tier 4 & 8 would be shafted badly, but it seems even tier 6 gets the short end of the stick; there must be a large population of tier 7 and tier pref-8 virtually unmolested by tier 9's to have that many battles against tier 6 tanks. I did expect more players to play tier X because it was the Caernarvon AX marathon for the past 2 weeks, but didn't realize that it would trickle down low enough to affect tier 6. Just plain bad. Maybe I should start recording my battles too...

Btw, what time do you usually play? In HK / SG time?

Thanks for the feedback, is good to have feedbacks from someone who cares about this problem.

I don't think there are so many Caernarvon AX out there, am I wrong? Normally I play from 21:30 to 24:00 Bangkok time. Sometimes I am able to play one hour during lunch break.

Thanks for the feedback, is good to have feedbacks from someone who cares about this problem.

I don't think there are so many Caernarvon AX out there, am I wrong? Normally I play from 21:30 to 24:00 Bangkok time. Sometimes I am able to play one hour during lunch break.

There was a marathon last month where you can get a free CaAX by tier X missions. That would mean a lot of players normally playing lower-tiers are instead playing tier X.

And you play primetime as well; when most people play. Might be because of the CaAX marathon why there's poor MM at tier 6 last month. This month there's no marathon so there's a slight possibility for better tier 6 MM.

And you play primetime as well; when most people play. Might be because of the CaAX marathon why there's poor MM at tier 6 last month. This month there's no marathon so there's a slight possibility for better tier 6 MM.

Tier 4 and 5 play primetime as well, and when I was playing Tier 4 and 5 I was always bottom Tier in the same primetime. And when I still play my Tier 4 and 5 (chinese, japanese and poland lately) I have percentages of bottom tier even worst than Tier 6. So, please... stop this idea about primetime. There are enough tanks out there to let us play in a proper balanced way, but this is not happening!

If I play as Tier 6 I am bottom tier pratically the 70% of the time, but If I play Tier 5 I am bottom tier pratically the 75% of the time as you can see below.

3-5-7

5-10

15

TT

MT

BT

TT

BT

0

18

59

5

15

1

77

20

1

0%

23%

77%

25%

75%

I know that you cannot be top tier in a Tier 5 tank in the 3-5-7 template because of the PMM for Tier 3... but maybe, I said maybe, they can compensate somehow with more 5-10 or 15 (same tier) templates. No way. 98 matches in the last weeks and 59 of them impossible to manage without using premium ammunition.

Not saying it's because of primetime; when it's primetime being bottom-tier should happen less.

MM is broken. Even WG has confirmed it themselves so we don't have to prove it to them.

From here, it's just a question of what to do until WG fixes MM. Spam premium? Use other tank types?

In my opinion a quick solution (maybe a momentary one) should be remove the 3-5-7 template. it takes probably something around five minutes to do that. And I am sure they can do it... as much as they let you play as top tier in any new tank.

And this is my question: have you ever noticed that when you play for the very first time a brand new tank you play the first match, the second and sometimes the third match as Top Tier? I had this feeling with my last two tanks (VK 30.01 D and Skoda T 25). Obviously after 3 games starts the usual nightmare of bottom tier... but the beginning it's a "Wow, this tank is superb!"

In my opinion a quick solution (maybe a momentary one) should be remove the 3-5-7 template. it takes probably something around five minutes to do that. And I am sure they can do it... as much as they let you play as top tier in any new tank.

And this is my question: have you ever noticed that when you play for the very first time a brand new tank you play the first match, the second and sometimes the third match as Top Tier? I had this feeling with my last two tanks (VK 30.01 D and Skoda T 25). Obviously after 3 games starts the usual nightmare of bottom tier... but the beginning it's a "Wow, this tank is superb!"

Current MM system has the 357 as core, so it's not easy to remove. Bringing back old MM system still gives imbalanced-tier matches (remember back when the enemy had 7 tier 10's and you only had 3? Good times.)

There was a "new tank" MM mechanism which lets you become top-tier for the first few battles in your newly-bought tank back in the old MM (old MM so broken they can get away with letting you be top-tier more often). That system is still nominally there in new MM, though I'm not sure if it still works since it would force MM to put you in the "3" in 357 too many times. I myself haven't gotten top-tier in my newly-bought tanks for some time...

Hi people,
as promised here are the results of my MatchMaking percentages on Tier 6 games based on 442 total matches in the last 40 days:

442 matches

3-5-7 mode

5-10 mode

15 mode

376 = 85%

62 = 14%

4 = 1%

Top Tier

Middle Tier

Bottom Tier

Top Tier

Bottom Tier

Same Tier

35

89

252

19

43

4

9%

24%

67%

31%

69%

As you can see I played the 85% of the matches on the 3-5-7 template mode, the 14% of the time in a 5-10 mode and the rest of the matches (1%) on same tier matches. In the 3-5-7 template mode I was bottom tier for the 67% of the time (very far away from the supposed 46%).

What about the trends of the last weeks? It seems not changed very much from the beginning, even if I noticed a drop down of the top tier game numbers in favor of the middle tier positions in the last two weeks (if you need the detailed stats let me know I can share). Are they doing some experiments? Maybe. Let me know what you think about it.

And yep, that's horrible. We predicted that tier 4 & 8 would be shafted badly, but it seems even tier 6 gets the short end of the stick; there must be a large population of tier 7 and tier pref-8 virtually unmolested by tier 9's to have that many battles against tier 6 tanks. I did expect more players to play tier X because it was the Caernarvon AX marathon for the past 2 weeks, but didn't realize that it would trickle down low enough to affect tier 6. Just plain bad. Maybe I should start recording my battles too...

Btw, what time do you usually play? In HK / SG time?

Hi mttspiii,
sorry for the late answer. I use to play from 18:00 to 19:00 andm then from 22:00 to 23:00 Bangkok time.

If you are interested I can share my new stats until today, by the way yesterday 10 games: 8 bottom tier and 1 middle tier on 3-5-7 template, 1 bottom tier on 5-10 template. A nightmare.